Grand Central was a Voice over IP service that was acquired by Google, and turned into Google Voice. Launched January 1, 2005; shut down March 11, 2009 — it lived 4 years. One of 10 Google products killed in 2009. Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. telephone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States. The service is configured and maintained by users in a web-based application, similar in style to Google's email service Gmail, or Android and iOS applications on smartphones or tablets. It is used for call forwarding and voicemail services, voice and text messaging, as well as U.S. and Canadian domestic and international calls. Incoming calls are forwarded to one or more telephone numbers that users must configure and verify in the account. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).